A4 The BulleTin • Friday, January 8, 2021
TODAY
Siege
Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth
day of 2021. There are 357 days
left in the year.
On Jan. 8, 1998, Ramzi Yousef
the mastermind of the 1993
World Trade Center bombing,
was sentenced in New York to
life in prison without the possi-
bility of parole.
In 1815, the last major engage-
ment of the War of 1812 came
to an end as U.S. forces defeated
the British in the Battle of New
Orleans, not having gotten word
of the signing of a peace treaty.
In 1918, President Woodrow
Wilson outlined his Fourteen
Points for lasting peace after
World War I. Mississippi became
the first state to ratify the 18th
Amendment to the Constitution,
which established Prohibition.
In 1935, rock-and-roll legend
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo,
Mississippi.
In 1964, President Lyndon B.
Johnson, in his State of the Union
address, declared an “uncondi-
tional war on poverty in America.”
In 1968, the Otis Redding single
”(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”
was released on the Volt label al-
most a month after the singer’s
death in a plane crash.
In 1973, the Paris peace talks
between the United States and
North Vietnam resumed.
In 1982, American Telephone
and Telegraph settled the
Justice Department’s antitrust
lawsuit against it by agreeing to
divest itself of the 22 Bell System
companies.
In 1994, Tonya Harding won the
ladies’ U.S. Figure Skating Cham-
pionship in Detroit, a day after
Nancy Kerrigan dropped out be-
cause of the clubbing attack that
had injured her right knee.
In 1997, the state of Arkansas put
three men to death in the second
triple execution since capital pun-
ishment was reinstated in 1976.
In 2004, A U.S. Black Hawk
medivac helicopter crashed
near Fallujah, Iraq, killing all nine
soldiers aboard.
In 2006, the first funerals were
held in West Virginia for the 12
miners who’d died in the Sago
Mine disaster six days earlier.
Ten years ago: U.S. Rep. Gabri-
elle Giffords, D-Ariz., was shot
and critically wounded when a
gunman opened fire as the con-
gresswoman met with constitu-
ents in Tucson; six people were
killed, 12 others also injured.
Five years ago: Joaquin “El
Chapo” Guzman, the world’s
most-wanted drug lord, was
captured for a third time in a
daring raid by Mexican ma-
rines, six months after walking
through a tunnel to freedom
from a maximum security prison
in a made-for-Hollywood es-
cape that deeply embarrassed
the government and strained
ties with the United States.
One year ago: Iran struck back at
the United States for killing Iran’s
top military commander, firing
missiles at two Iraqi military bases
housing American troops; more
than 100 U.S. service members
were diagnosed with traumatic
brain injuries after the attack. As
Iran braced for a counterattack,
the country’s Revolutionary
Guard shot down a Ukrainian
jetliner after apparently mistaking
it for a missile; all 176 people on
board were killed, including 82
Iranians and more than 50 Cana-
dians. South Korea said it had put
a Chinese woman under isolated
treatment amid concerns that she
had brought back the virus that
had sickened dozens in mainland
China and Hong Kong.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor-come-
dian Larry Storch is 98. Former
CBS newsman Charles Osgood
is 88. Singer Shirley Bassey is 84.
Game show host Bob Eubanks is
83. Country-gospel singer Cristy
Lane is 81. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Anthony Gourdine (Little
Anthony and the Imperials) is 80.
Actor Yvette Mimieux is 79. Singer
Juanita Cowart Motley (The
Marvelettes) is 77. Actor Kathleen
Noone is 76. Rock musician Robby
Krieger (The Doors) is 75. Movie
director John McTiernan is 70.
Actor Harriet Sansom Harris is
66. Actor Ron Cephas Jones is 64.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
is 63. Singer-songwriter Ron Sex-
smith is 57. Actor Michelle Forbes
is 56. Actor Maria Pitillo is 55. Sing-
er R. Kelly is 54. Rock musician Jeff
Abercrombie (Fuel) is 52. Actor
Ami Dolenz is 52. Reggae singer
Sean Paul is 48. Actor Donnell
Turner is 48. Country singer Tift
Merritt is 46. Actor-rock singer
Jenny Lewis is 45. Actor Amber
Benson is 44. Actor Scott Whyte is
43. Singer-songwriter Erin McCa-
rley is 42. Actor Sarah Polley is 42.
Actor Rachel Nichols is 41. Actor
Gaby Hoffman is 39. Rock musi-
cian Disashi Lumumbo-Kasongo
(Gym Class Heroes) is 38. Actor
Cynthia Erivo is 34. Actor Freddie
Stroma is 34.
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— Associated Press
Trump concedes
But the rampage that left
four dead and a country on
edge is forcing a broader reck-
oning of all that has happened
over Trump’s tenure in office
and what comes next for a tat-
tered and torn nation.
One Republican lawmaker
publicly called for invoking
the 25th Amendment, join-
ing Democrats in an effort to
force Trump from office be-
fore Biden is inaugurated on
Jan. 20. Others said there must
be a review of the U.S. Capitol
Police’s failure to stop the the
breach by the protesters.
The Senate’s top Democrat,
Chuck Schumer of New York,
said Trump must be removed
from office and not stay pres-
ident “one day” longer.” He
called the attack on the Capi-
tol “an insurrection against the
United States, incited by the
president.”
With tensions high, the Cap-
itol shuttered and lawmakers
not scheduled to return until
the inauguration, an uneasy
feeling of stalemate settled over
a main seat of national power
as Trump remained holed up
at the White House.
The social media giant
Facebook banned the pres-
ident from its platform and
Instagram for the duration of
Trump’s final days in office, if
not indefinitely, citing his in-
tent to stoke unrest. Twitter
had silenced him the day be-
fore.
The head of the U.S. Capitol
Police defended his depart-
ment’s response to the storm-
ing of the Capitol, saying that
officers had “acted valiantly
when faced with thousands of
individuals involved in violent
riotous actions.”
Congress
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Trump addressed tens
of thousands of supporters
just prior to the vote and the
crowd pushed up Pennsylva-
nia Avenue. Some in the crowd
pushed up Capitol Hill, fight-
ing police along the way, then
smashing through the doors of
the Capitol’s central chambers.
National Guard and an FBI
tactical squad arrived to bolster
defenses and push the invaders
out using a plume of tear gas in
Statuary Hall, home to images
of great Americans of the past.
Leaders discussed calling off
the session, but opted to con-
tinue to get their job done and
as a symbol of the continuity of
American government.
Some but not all of those
challenging the Electoral Col-
lege votes announced they
were dropping the effort after
the rash of violence.
Objections to the vote totals
in Arizona and Pennsylvania,
a smattering of the states origi-
nally targeted, went to debates
and votes in the chambers.
Among Oregon’s nearly
all-Democratic delegation, the
Electoral College votes were
supported by both Sen. Ron
Wyden and Sen. Jeff Merkeley.
Four of the five Oregon Dem-
ocratic House members — Su-
Andrew Harnik/AP
Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., cleans up debris and personal belongings
strewn across the floor of the Rotunda in the early morning hours of
Thursday, after protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington.
Washington Mayor Muriel
Bowser quickly called the po-
lice response “a failure.”
“Obviously it was a failure
or you would not have had
people enter the Capitol by
breaking windows and terror-
izing the members of Congress
who were doing a very sacred
requirement of their jobs,”
Bowser said.
Black lawmakers, in partic-
ular, noted the way the mostly
white Trump supporters were
treated as they laid siege to the
Capitol.
Urged on by Trump during
a rally near the White House
earlier in the day Wednesday
to head to Capitol Hill, pro-
testers swiftly broke through
police barriers, smashed win-
dows and paraded through the
halls, sending lawmakers into
hiding.
The protesters ransacked the
place, taking over the House
and Senate chambers and wav-
ing Trump, American and
Confederate flags. Outside,
they scaled the walls and bal-
conies in their breach of the
building.
One protester, a white
woman, was shot to death by
Capitol Police, and there were
dozens of arrests.
Before dawn Thursday, Con-
gress confirmed Biden as the
presidential election winner,
lawmakers resolved to return
from shelter with a display to
the country, and the world, of
the nation’s enduring commit-
ment to uphold the will of the
voters and the peaceful transfer
of power.
Vice President Mike Pence,
presiding over the joint session,
announced the tally for Biden,
306-232.
Several lawmakers suggested
that Trump be prosecuted for
a crime, impeached for a sec-
ond time or even removed
under the Constitution’s 25th
Amendment, which seemed
unlikely two weeks from when
his term expires.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
said Trump should immedi-
ately be removed from office or
Congress may proceed to im-
peach him.
She said at the Capitol: “The
president of the United States
incited an armed insurrec-
tion against America,” she said
zanne Bonamici, D-Beaverton;
Earl Blumenauer, D-Portland;
Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield;
and Kurt Schrader, D-Salem —
supported the slates brought to
the Capitol in thick mahogany
boxes.
Oregon’s wild card on the
day was Rep. Cliff Bentz,
R-Ontario, the only Republi-
can in the state’s delegation to
Congress, and a freshman who
had only been sworn into of-
fice the previous Sunday.
Bentz had been among a
group of incoming lawmak-
ers who issued a statement last
month calling for “a congres-
sional investigation and review
into what has happened in
states where election irregulari-
ties have been observed.”
Over the next six weeks,
Bentz said he talked to constit-
uents in the 2nd Congressional
District , which takes up most
of Eastern and Central Oregon.
“I had heard many speak
of distrust in the elections
that were facilitated by several
states,” Bentz wrote. “That is
why I wrote to Speaker Nancy
Pelosi last month, urging for a
prompt and thorough congres-
sional investigation into voting
irregularities during the 2020
presidential election. So far, my
request has fallen on deaf ears.”
In the end, Bentz split his
votes, opposing the objection
to the 11 Electoral College
votes for Biden sent by Ari-
zona. But several hours later,
Bentz was on the side of those
Republicans objecting to the
20 Electoral College votes from
Pennsylvania.
In a press release issued just
before 4 a.m. in Washington,
Bentz said the issues in each
case were different, but his
constituents believed the elec-
tion was tainted by unspecified
fraud.
“My goal was to protect the
integrity of our elections and
to prompt all states to uphold
election laws as determined by
their state legislatures – all in
accordance with our Constitu-
tion,” Bentz said.
Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Penn.,
dismissed the stalling with
objections and repeated rec-
itations of legal arguments re-
jected over 50 times by various
courts as dangerous “lies” that
were getting people killed.
“These objections don’t
deserve an ounce of respect,
not an ounce,” Lamb said. “A
woman died out there tonight,
and you’re making these ob-
jections. Let’s be clear about
what happened in this cham-
ber today — invaders came
in for the first time since the
War of 1812. They desecrated
these halls, in this chamber,
and practically every inch of
Celebrate the end of 2020
Give The Gift of
With 13 days left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent
to reality on Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out
early, acknowledging he’ll peacefully leave after Congress affirmed his
defeat.
Trump led off a video from the White House by condemning the vi-
olence carried out in his name a day earlier at the Capitol. Then, for the
first time, he admitted that his presidency would soon end — though
he declined to mention President-elect Joe Biden by name or explic-
itly state that he had lost.
“A new administration will be inaugurated on Jan. 20,” Trump said
in the video. “My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and
seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and rec-
onciliation.”
The address, which appeared designed to stave off talk of a forced
early eviction, came at the end of a day when the cornered president
stayed out of sight in the White House. Silenced on some of his favor-
ite internet lines of communication, he watched the resignations of
several top aides, including a Cabinet secretary.
Two officials resign
A U.S. Senate official and the head of the U.S. Capitol Police both
quit Thursday in the wake of the siege at the Capitol.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he has accepted the
resignation of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger.
Thursday. Pelosi said he could
do further harm to the coun-
try: “Any day can be a horror
show for America.”
But it was not just Demo-
crats.
Republican Rep. Adam
Kinzinger of Illinois, publicly
called on Trump’s Cabinet to
invoke the 25th Amendment
and remove the president from
office.
“The president caused this,”
Kinzinger said in a video
posted to Twitter. “The presi-
dent is unwell.”
The 25th Amendment al-
lows for the vice president and
a majority of the Cabinet to
declare the president unfit for
office. The vice president then
becomes acting president.
The Republicans who led the
effort to challenge the Electoral
College tally for Biden exposed
the extent of the divisions
within the party, and the na-
tion, after four years of Trump’s
presidency.
Those two GOP senators,
Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh
Hawley of Missouri, faced an-
gry peers in the Senate.
But in the House, Repub-
lican leaders Rep. Kevin Mc-
Carthy of California and Rep.
Steve Scalise of Louisiana,
joined in the effort to overturn
Biden’s win by objecting to the
Electoral College results.
Despite Trump’s repeated
claims of voter fraud, election
officials and his own former at-
torney general have said there
were no problems on a scale
that would change the out-
come. All the states have cer-
tified their results as fair and
accurate, by Republican and
Democratic officials alike.
ground where we work.”
Earlier in the debates, Sen-
ate Majority Leader Mitch Mc-
Connell chastised any of those
considering an objection as
setting in motion a dangerous
path for democracy.
“We’ll either hasten down a
poisonous path where only the
winners of an election actu-
ally accept the results, or show
we can still muster the patri-
otic courage that our forebears
showed, not only in victory,
but in defeat,” he said. “If this
election were overturned by
mere allegations from the los-
ing side, our democracy would
enter a death spiral,” McCon-
nell said.
Democrats easily repulsed
the objections when they fi-
nally came up for a vote. Mc-
Connell and several other se-
nior Republicans, especially
in the Senate, joined in up-
holding the Electoral College
tallies.
It was during the Arizona
debate earlier on Wednesday
that tens of thousands of pro-
Trump demonstrators, fresh
from a rallying speech by the
president, streamed up Penn-
sylvania Avenue where more
militant activists in the group
stormed the Capitol, attacking
police and crashing their way
into the heart of the building.
Demonstrators broke up
and carted off furniture from
leadership offices, set small
fires and left behind at least
two explosive devices. A bil-
lowing cloud of tear gas was
needed to push the stragglers
out of the Statuary Hall.
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